Thanks to Dmitry Matveyev for the 500 EUR donation that allowed me to buy the smartphone (Samsung A53) and selfie stick that I use to record these videos in the great outdoors.

In this entry, I walked in the mountains and talked about developing the right attitude for dealing with matters we do not control. The main points:

• A story of mine about remaining open to new experiences after misfortune strikes.
• You do not control all the factors. If you assume the blame, you imply that you do control those factors.
• If you think you are a god, you will always overestimate your abilities. You will then desire to achieve that which you cannot. The disconnect will make you suffer.
• An explanation of non-ownership with specific examples.
• Elaboration on the bad habit of dithering, delaying, and postponing. You think you control time, again overestimating yourself.
• Overthinking and overanalysing is to your detriment. Fundamentally, you make the mistake of assuming that the perfect is attainable.
• Thinking that the perfect is attainable means that you expect your actions to be perfect. But to act is to do so in imperfect circumstances, with incomplete knowledge.
• To act is to perform a leap of faith. There is faith in acting.
• More examples that tie it all together.

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